Jane Fonda arrested during climate change protest in Washington D.C.

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Jane Fonda was arrested in Washington D.C. on Friday while protesting climate change on the Capitol steps.

Fonda and 16 others were arrested for "unlawfully demonstrating" on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol and were charged with crowding, obstructing or incommoding, according to Variety.

Fonda launched her "Fire Drill Fridays" protest campaign to demand action against climate change. She intends to protest each Friday until at least mid-January, according to a press release.

"Change is coming by design or by disaster," Fonda said in the release. "A Green New Deal that transitions off fossil fuels provides the design. They say it’s not realistic, that it’s Socialism. That’s what they said about Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, and we got Social Security and a middle class."

.@Janefonda is the THIRD arrest here at the US Capitol... The moment it happened...@WUSA9#ClimateChange#FireDrillFriday#breakingpic.twitter.com/wWoZggYloN

&mdash; Mike Valerio (@MikevWUSA)October 11, 2019

According to the Washington Post, Fonda recently moved to Washington D.C. in order to more actively protest for climate change action.